Verifiable licensing

Publication authorization

Every figure you export from SciChat.ai can carry a signed authorization certificate — bound to the exact file by its SHA-256 fingerprint and verifiable by editors, reviewers and your institution.

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Export with certificate

Tick “Attach authorization certificate” when exporting. A PDF is issued instantly.

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Bound to the file

The certificate stores the figure's SHA-256 fingerprint and an HMAC signature over its key fields.

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Anyone can verify

Editors scan the QR code or enter the number here, and can check the submitted file byte-for-byte.

Verify a certificate

Enter the certificate number printed on the PDF, or scan its QR code.

Licence terms

Permitted

  • Journal articles, conference papers and preprints
  • Theses, dissertations and textbooks
  • Posters, slides, lectures and grant proposals
  • Patents and commercial publications
  • Editing, cropping and recolouring within your publication

Not permitted

  • Reselling the figure as a standalone stock asset
  • Claiming the figure is hand-drawn when a journal requires AI disclosure
  • Using figures to misrepresent experimental results

Suggested acknowledgment

Figures were created with SciChat.ai (AI-assisted scientific illustration) and reviewed by the authors for scientific accuracy.
本文图片使用 SciChat.ai(AI 辅助科研绘图)制作,并经作者审核以确保科学准确性。

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